The first blackhole picture captured
The unveiling, before a crowd at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. and five other venues around the world, took place almost exactly a century after images of stars askew in the heavens made Einstein famous and confirmed his theory of general relativity as the law of the cosmos.
We live 26,000 light-years from the center of the Milky Way. That’s a rounding error by cosmological standards, but still — it’s far. When the light now reaching Earth from the galactic center first took flight, people were crossing the Bering Strait land bridge, hunting woolly mammoths along the way.
In these dark days, it’s only fitting that the object of this pursuit is the darkest thing imaginable.
The same logic also applies to ourselves, you may never know the limit of yourself, once you are settled down, it is hard and pricy for you to be go even one more step further.
“To do this, we worked for over a decade,” Doeleman said, in a Washington, D.C.
Will you be able to sacrifice, or even give it a shot to make things happen? I doubt, but it worth trying.
